Most Americans know Katharine Graham as the media titan behind The Washington Post’s coverage of Watergate, which led to President Richard Nixon’s resignation in 1974. So it was a surprise to learn in her 1997 memoir, Personal History, which won the Pulitzer Prize, that she took the job reluctantly. Her father, Eugene Meyer, had originally given the leadership role to her husband, Philip Graham. “Far from troubling me that my father thought of my husband and not me, it pleased me,” Graham said. But 20 years later, in 1963, everything changed when Philip, suffering from mental illness, took his own life. The previously shy “doormat wife” would go on to run the show—and what a show it was. This film explores her life and rise to power. —Elena Clavarino